Daphene McFerren, Author at Institute for Public Service Reporting

Daphene McFerren

Daphene R. McFerren is the executive director of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. She grew up in Fayette County, Tennessee, and attended Yale College and Harvard Law School. Before joining the Hooks Institute she served as senior counsel in the Office of General Counsel at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, was counsel to the late Attorney General Janet Reno, and later served as Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Maryland prosecuting, among other cases, forced labor and involuntary servitude cases involving foreign victims.